Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c9.s2.136

c9.s2.136

The following rare forms of miscellaneous Brahmanical deities deserve special mention in this connection. The goddess Sarasvatī is very widely worshipped in all parts of Bengal. The fifth day of the bright half of the month of Māgha is set apart for her worship. Images are made of clay in which the goddess is represented as standing or seated on a lotus holding a vīṇā in her hands. Stone images are very rare. Only one image appears to have been discovered in Eastern Bengal and is kept in the Dacca Museum. The Rajshahi Museum possesses three specimens, two of which were discovered in the Rajshahi District while the third comes from Chhatingram in the Bogra District. In the illustration published in the Catalogue of the Museum we find the characteristic features of the fourth period of activity of the Eastern School of Mediæval Sculpture.⁶ The Dacca specimen also belongs to the same period⁷.